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23/04/24
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Transit for Teens
BC’s Get on Board program made public transit free for youth up to 12 across the province. But what about teens? Photo by waferboard via Flickr, Creative Commons licensed.

Apr. 22, 2024

This Earth Day, Transit for Teens are pushing provincial leaders to extend the Get on Board program to age 18.

17/04/24
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Chris Russill, Patrick McCurdy & Jenny Kliever
We need to get to the bottom of fossil fuel greenwashing people encounter when conducting searches on Google. Photo by fotdmike/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

Apr, 12, 2024

When we are confused about carbon taxes or other climate policies, we often turn to Google for help. Some of us Google Search for information on “climate payment” or “climate action incentive payment” or "carbon tax rebate." Others seek government sources by searching “Environment and Climate Change Canada” or “net zero.” A few use special operators for searches, like “filetype:pdf climate change,” to filter for climate reports in PDF format.

17/04/24
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Low snowpack could bring challenges for BC Hydro. Photo via BC Hydro.

Apr. 12, 2024

How the Lowest Snowpack in 50 Years Will Hit BC

BC Hydro says it’s prepared to deal with the challenge of low reservoirs.

17/04/24
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Lisa Friedman
The new measure will require utilities to reduce PFAS substances in drinking water to near-zero levels.Credit...Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Apr. 10, 2024

For the first time, the federal government is requiring municipal water systems to remove six synthetic chemicals linked to cancer and other health problems that are present in the tap water of hundreds of millions of Americans.

17/04/24
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David Gilbert WIRED
(Photo-Illustration: Anjali Nair // Wired),

Apr.11, 2024

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17/04/24
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Rachel Donald, originally published by Planet: Critical
photo credit: By Håkan Dahlström from Malmö, Sweden – Barrels graveyard, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80620791

Apr. 15, 2024

Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them.

17/04/24
Author: 
Tiffany Crawford
A photo taken on March 24, 2022 shows a LNG (liquefied natural gas) filling station for trucks in Dortmund in western Germany. PHOTO BY INA FASSBENDER / AFP

Apr. 10, 2024

An open letter says plans for five new liquefied natural gas facilities do not align with global efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 C

Dozens of climate-action groups are calling on the B.C. government to halt plans to expand liquefied natural gas production because of the climate crisis.

 

17/04/24
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Colin Greer, Eric Laursen
 Protesters from the Tea Party movement, a right-wing populist formation in the United States. By NYyankees51 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9944392

Apr. 15, 2024

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